The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. Only when your roots are deep can your fruits be abundant.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

I speak of God's love and grace and redemption and freedom, but when I say "in the context of this community," it is heard differently. To be with people so obviously broken, so obviously handicapped, and here to discover real joy and peace - that makes the Word of God come alive.

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.